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Show How does Park Citf it into the nuclear civil defense plan? Officer Lamar Richins Another monitor will be at the Marsac School. The system sys-tem would i-:lude monitors in shelters, and self-support monitors installed with the police department, fire stations, sta-tions, and the forestry department. de-partment. Over .Salt. Lake, Findlay said, planes flying at a safe altitude would measure ra- ironi utiyn i uiuioj, nuu referred to Sagan as a "dunce" not qualified to discuss matters of nuclear physics. He also had little respect for the film. "If you want to be communist, it was the greatest movie you could have." If Sagan's predictions are accurate, he asked, why weren't they seen during the graphic by Susan Krushat vl7)fJijjKr ""iffe 7jT "This is absurd. It makes you believe you can survive." sur-vive." -Dr. Lou Borgenicht effective shelter before a blast. Afterward?,1 radios activity will decline to safe i levels, if contamination is i cleansed away. "You'll be " able to wash the dust off, flush the streets, and live your life," said Findlay:" Lou Borgenicht doesn't buy that. He said' a foolish belief in civil defense safety will encourage complacency, compla-cency, and help bring on a nuclear war. Borgenicht, a nuclear-freeze advocate and physician, said, "This is absurd. It makes you believe you can survive." Orderly location plans, he said, will be scuttled by citizen panic and the likelihood that a nuclear attack will come suddenly. Findlay said it was not known yet how much of the Salt Lake populace would be relocated to Summit. Because Be-cause it is close, it would be the probable shelter area for families of workers who must linger in Salt Lake to maintain vital industries, hospitals, etc. "You want to keep those critical individuals indivi-duals in there up to the last minutes." They can then get over the summit quickly to join their families. With the mountain shield, Findlay said, residents resi-dents in Summit will have two hours after the blast to eet into their shelters dioactive levels to determine when people can return. All this is for nought, responds Borgenicht. Crisis Relocation, he said, is based on the idea that evacuation can take place over a matter of days. "It assumes your best case -gradual build-up of tension over days before war breaks out," he said. One argument for U.S. civil defense, he noted, is that the Soviet Union has allegedly developed an evacuation eva-cuation program to preserve 80 percent of its population. "The Soviet scheme is not that sophisticated. It only several years of above-ground above-ground testing? The Mount St. Helens explosion generated gener-ated 31 megatons, he said, and no unnatural winter occurred. He said that in the worst kind of explosion, bursting at the ground, radiation levels would descend in a couple of weeks to one one-thousandth of their original intensity. "If you had some apples covered with radioactive dust, you can wash them and they would be as safe to eat as if there had been no war," he said. There will be proper notice i i! I !J TA. by Rick Brough If the Salt Lake Valley is targeted in a nuclear war, government plans would have the population evacuated evac-uated to rural areas. Sum mit County may be one of the most important, with its proximity and the shield afforded by the Wasatch Mountain range. The federal government rails it if a Crisis Relocation the ABC film, "The Day After" depicted its version of effects of a nuclear war. Nuclear war will hopefully never happen, said Ralph Findlay, but it can be survived. Findlav is the "You'll be able to wash the dust off, flush the streets, and live your life' -Ralph Findlay Plan. In 1982, surveyors began a seven-year effort to locate possible rural shelters. shel-ters. Summit County has not been researched thoroughly. But Park City and its underground mine tunnels are part of the plan, according accord-ing to Dennis Pace, Summit County's civil defense officer. of-ficer. The plan has been swept into a large national debate about the value of civil defense especially since works to evacuate its political politi-cal and military leadership." leader-ship." At an international conclave of scientists, he said, the Soviet delegates agreed that the USSR's plan offers no protection to the people. Other scientists have argued ar-gued civil defense efforts would be overwhelmed by the global effects. Dr. Carl Sagan has contended that in a war that exploded only 100 megatons, the radioactivity would deplete Earth's protective pro-tective ozone laver. Vast ior evacuation, ne saiu. u is probable tensions will build up over days before nuclear weapons are launched, he said. Even if citizens don't have 72 hours notice, (the time needed to clear a large metropolitan area, he said) they can go to in-place shelters shel-ters or the best shelters they can find. "Saving some is better bet-ter than none," Findlay said. Salt Lake can be erupted. The normal daily traffic flow, he said, is one-third the volume that would be needed for a total evacuation. chief of planning and preparedness pre-paredness in the Utah Office of Emergency Management. He told the Record that a wise populace can seek Research is just starting to designate shelter sites in Summit. Dennis Pace said a surveyor was in Summit recently, and he expects a rnmnrehensive rnmnnter listing of shelters in about a month. Several sites in Park City, though, have long been considered for shelter. Pace said these include the Memorial Building, the Treasure Mountain Inn, and the tunnels of the Alliance, Ontario, Silver King and other mines. A system of monitors will measure radioactivity after a blast, Pace said. The primary monitor is at the Coalville Courthouse, manned man-ned by Radiological Defense clouds of soot and dust (likely starting in the northern hemisphere, but spreading southward,) would generate a prolonged period of cold and darkness. Animal and plant, supplies, would die, followed quickly j by humans succumbing from starvation or radiation sickness. Sagan branded it "The Nuclear Winter" in a recent "Parade Magazine" article and in a TV discussion discus-sion following "The Day After." This received short shrift He also contended citizens will be cooperative and calm. "A study by a leading psychologist showed that people are more pro-social than anti-social n a crisis." AMal?ooujie (i Americans, wflyojlou?, a, civil defense plan if properly informed about it, he said. Both sides agree that nuclear war is horrible. But that argreement will not settle the dispute or tell us if Park City's mines will one day become a refuge for victims of a holocaust. |